* Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860): Vert a bend between two stars of six points
all argent.
[Klaus K]
* Pierre Corneille (1606-84, an. 1637): Azure on a fess or between three mullets
argent, three lions' heads gules.
[Rietstap]

* Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803): Azure two arrows per saltire or shafted argent
between four flames of the second, on a chief gules 9 billets of the second 5 and 4.
[Jougla de Morenas. Author of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.]
* Victor Hugo (1802-85): Azure, on a chief argent two martlets sable.
[Rietstap.]

* Giacomo Casanova (1725-98): alleged son of Gaetano C., an actor, and Giovanna
Farussi, daughter of a shoemaker, and an actress/dancer herself.
Casanova was considered by many, including himself, to be the natural
son of Michele Grimani, a Venitian patrician who owned the theater
S. Anselmo where C.'s parents worked and lived. Grimani had a coat of arms:
pally of eight, Argent and Gules.
Casanova took the name of chevalier de Seingalt: chevalier because he was
made knight of the Golden Spur, a rather easy-to-obtain Papal order, in
1760. Seingalt is a pseudonym of unknown origin.
* Geoffrey Chaucer, Esq (ca. 1342-1400):
per pale argent and gules, a bend counter changed. Crest: a tortoise proper.
[Rietstap]

* Henry Fielding (1707-54): Argent, on a fess azure three lozenges or. For
cadency, a mullet within an annulet.
[A. Wagner]
* David Hume (1711-76): vert a lion argent on a bordure gules nine torteaux
[on his bookplate on a copy of Shaftesbury's Characteristicks, in the National Library
of Scotland, reproduced in The David Hume Library by Norton and Nortn (1996).
Motto: true to the end.]
* Laurence Sterne (1713-68): or a chevron between three crosslets flory sable.
Crest: a starling.
[In his Sentimental Journey (1768; vol. 2, chap. 5), Sterne tells the story of
a starling he found in an inn of Paris, that had been taught to say "I can't get out!".
"from that time to this, I have borne this poor starling as the crest to my arms. -- Thus:

And let the heralds officers twist his neck about if they dare."]
* Edward Gibbon (1737-94): (Probably) Sable, a lion rampant argent between
three escallops or.
[A. Wagner]
* Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832, Baronet Apr. 22, 1820):
Arms: Quarterly: 1 and 4, Or two five-pointed stars in chief and a crescent
in base within an orle azure; 2 and 3 Or, on a bend azure three mascles of
the first, in senester chief an oval buckle of the second.

* Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Argent, on a mount in base vert an
otter statant proper, on a chief gules a dove close proper between two crosses
patee fitchee or. For cadency, an annulet.
[A. Wagner]

* Jane Austen (1775-1817): Or a chevron gules between three lions' gambs erased.
[from a bookplate taken from Jane Austen's Letters to her Sister Cassandra and
Others edited by R. W. Chapman (1952, p. 523), used by a paternal cousin.
These arms were also used, e.g., by her brother Edward Knight as a quartering.
See Henry Churchyard's Jane Austen Info Page.
A. Wagner has three bezants on the chevron, only on the basis of a 16th c.
Visitation.]

* Lord Macaulay (William Babbington Macaulay, 1800-59, baron 1857): Gules,
two arrows saltirewise points downward argent surmounted by as many barrulets
compony or and azure between two buckles in pale of the third, all within a
bordure engrailed also of the third. Crest: a spurred boot. Motto: Dulce
periculum.
[A. Wagner, Rietstap]

* Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-92): Gules, on a bend nebuly or between three
leopards' faces jessant-de-lis of the last, a wreath of laurel proper.
[A. Wagner]

* William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63): Vert, two garbs or, in base an arrow
argent, on a chief purpure a cherub's head proper between two estoiles of the
third. For cadency, a mullet.
[A. Wagner]
* Anthony Trollope (1815-82): Vert three stags argent attired or within a
bordure of the second.
[Burke's; Anthony Trollope was the second great-grandson of
Sir Thomas Trollope, 4th baronet; eventually his line succeeded to the
title and his descendant is the 16th baronet.]
* John Ruskin (1819-1900): Sable on a chevron between six spearheads argent three crosses
crosslets tichy gules.
[A. Wagner]